In article after article, study after study, research and anecdotal evidence suggests that meetings are easily one of the least popular workplace activities. And for good reason, as most are boring and in many cases amount to a complete waste of time and money.

In fact, a study conducted by Verizon Business revealed that a full 1/3 of meetings are unproductive – completely ineffective. Most meetings suffer from having no clear purpose or objective, they are neither inspiring nor motivating and are too often organized by weak presenters who are unprepared and overly redundant.

Regardless, meetings will remain commonplace in today’s team-based work environment, so you’ll simply have to make the effort to improve them. There are many tried and true ways to do this – sending out invitations early, setting an agenda, encouraging participation, etc. – but even with these measures, most meetings still turn out dreary and dull.

So, let’s take it a step further. Let’s go beyond the run of the mill advice, with some lesser used, more creative tips that will help you spark engagement and foster productive, effective meetings that people won’t mind attending.

You have a new blog, business or website you’re trying to get off the ground. Congratulations on taking this huge step in getting your ideas and information to the world!

So, now it’s just a matter of getting this content into the right hands (i.e. subscribers, prospects, customers), and building your email list is a top priority to get this traction.

But, how do you get people to give you their emails? We are living in an era of content overload, so how do you stand out from the crowd?

Depending on the route you want to take, there are so many strategies to reel in and retain subscribers. Whether you want to leverage your social media presence, give some fun and creative incentives or just send out pure content, there is a strategy for everyone.

We’ve rounded up 295 of the best and put them all here, so go on and read all about them!